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With the most expensive election campaign in America over, business executives are starting to analyze what they will get in return for spending $2 billion to protect their interests.
Senate seats in Indiana and Massachusetts changed hands, and Democrats averted losses elsewhere.
Few voters expect President Obama to seriously change Washington; most just want him to make it function.
President Obama’s victory gives him a second chance to deliver the renewal he still promises, but without a clear mandate, a healthy economy or willing Republican partners.
The coming debate will be centered on whether the party should keep pursuing an antigovernment stance, or whether it should focus on a strategy that recognizes the demographic tide running strongly against it.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 7, 2012, covering November 7, 2012.
Taylor Swift
Kendrick Lamar
Jason Aldean
Mumford & Sons
Tony Bennett
2012Carmen Basilio, American boxer (born 1927)[†]
Carmen Basilio was an American professional boxer who was a two-time Undisputed Welterweight Champion and Undisputed Middleweight champion, beating Sugar Ray Robinson for the latter title. An iron-chinned pressure fighter, Basilio was a combination puncher who had great stamina and eventually wore many of his opponents down with vicious attacks to the head and body.
2012Kevin O'Donnell, Jr., American author (born 1950)[†]
Kevin O'Donnell Jr. was an American science fiction author. He was the son of Kevin O'Donnell, who served as director of the Peace Corps in 1971–72.
2012Glenys Page, New Zealand cricketer (born 1940)[†]
Glenys Lynne Page was a New Zealand cricketer who played as a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. She appeared in two One Day Internationals for New Zealand, both at the 1973 World Cup. She played domestic cricket for Auckland.
2012Sandy Pearson, Australian general (born 1918)[†]
Major General Cedric Maudsley Ingram "Sandy" Pearson, was an Australian Army officer. He was a Commander of Australian Forces during the Vietnam War, Commandant of the Royal Military College, Duntroon and Director of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales.
2012Darrell Royal, American football player and coach (born 1924)[†]
Darrell K Royal was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Mississippi State University from 1954 to 1955, the University of Washington in 1956, and the University of Texas from 1957 to 1976, compiling a career record of 184 wins, 60 losses and five ties. During his 20-year tenure as the head coach of the Texas Longhorns, Royal's teams won three national championships and 11 Southwest Conference titles while finishing ranked in fifteen seasons. He amassed a record of 167–47–5 while in Austin and won more games than any other coach in Texas Longhorns football history. Royal never had a losing season as a head coach for his entire career.
2012Arthur K. Snyder, American lawyer and politician (born 1932)[†]
Arthur Kress Snyder was an American lawyer, politician, and restaurateur. He served on the Los Angeles, California, City Council between 1967 and 1985 and later engaged in a private law practice.
2012An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.[†]
The 2012 Guatemala earthquake occurred on November 7 at 10:35:45 local time. The shock had a moment magnitude of 7.4 and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of VII. The epicenter was located in the Pacific Ocean, 35 kilometres (22 mi) south of Champerico in the department of Retalhuleu. The affected region is earthquake-prone, where the Cocos plate is being subducted along the Middle America Trench beneath the North American and the Caribbean plates, near their triple junction.
In 2012, the world population was approximately 7,201,202,485 people[†]